[Owncloud] Syncing and Time Synchronization

Klaas Freitag freitag at owncloud.com
Wed Jul 18 12:02:35 UTC 2012


On 18.07.2012 13:30, Brad McEvoy wrote:
> What I've done previously is to have the client log the the path and
> hash in a local database (eg sqllite) after each file is synced. Then
> when the sync finds differing client/server hashes it checks the db hash
> to find out which, or both, has changed.
Exactly, csync has this kind of db as well.

Klaas
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> On 18/07/12 23:12, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:31:13 Klaas Freitag wrote:
>>> For that, the best would be if the ownCloud WebDAV server would provide
>>> another WebDAV property that returns the md5-sum of the file or file
>>> list. That probably means that the md5 sum needs to be calculated on
>>> every file change on the server and be stored in the fs cache.
>>>
>>> Is that doable? Who can help with that?
>> Naive question: If the md5sums differ, how do you know which file is
>> older and
>> which one is newer?
>



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